San Diego Kids Health Assurance Network (SD-KHAN)

SD-KHAN is a collaboration of local community-based organizations,
hospitals, government agencies, health plans, and schools working
together to connect all children in San Diego County to medical and
dental coverage.

Vision: Children healthy in mind, body, and spirit reaching
their full potential.

Mission: To assure access to, appropriate utilization,
including prevention, and retention of medical and dental services for
low-income children in San Diego County.

Goal: Achieve 100% health coverage and 0% disparity for
children through sustainable systems approaches to assessing and
referring uninsured children to health coverage, and ensuring the use
of preventive and comprehensive health services and the retention of a
medical and dental home.

Objectives:

Identify children in need of health insurance coverage or
medical and dental services.

Ensure that schools,
employers, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) sites, food banks,
churches, Head Start, medical providers, dentists, and other
community organizations assess insurance status and refer families
with uninsured children to appropriate resources.